Nearby Stars, Brown Dwarfs, Exoplanets, & Disks
RECONS
NStars (NAU)
NStars (Appalachian State)
N. Reid color-magnitude data
NStED
Burgasser's T dwarf page
Kirkpatrick's Dwarf Archive
Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia
exoplanets.org (with Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets)
circumstellardisks.org
Stellar Clusters & Associations
WEBDA Open Cluster Database
Dias et al. Open Cluster Database
IAU Division VII (Galactic System)
IAU Commission 37: Star Clusters and Associations
Binary/Multiple Stars
DEBCat: John Southworth's catalogue of well-studied detached eclipsing binaries
USNO Catalog of Visual Binary Orbits
Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS)
9th Catalog of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits (SB9)
Spectral Types
Mamajek's comments on dwarf and subgiant MK spectral standards ("which MK spectral standards should I use?")
Gray's Digitial Spectral Classification Atlas
Keenan MK Spectra Types for Cooler Stars
Garrison MK Anchor Points
"Fundamental stellar photometry for standards of spectral type on the revised system of the Yerkes spectral atlas
", Johnson & Morgan 1953 (JM53)
"A standard stellar spectral sequence in the red/near-infrared - Classes K5 to M9", Kirkpatrick, Henry, McCarthy 1991 (KHM91)
"Contemporary optical spectral classification of the OB stars - A digital atlas", Walborn & Fitzpatrick 1990
"A Unified Near-Infrared Spectral Classification Scheme for T Dwarfs", Burgasser et al. 2006
"Near-Infrared Classification Spectroscopy: H-Band Spectra of Fundamental MK Standards", Meyer et al. 1998
Spectral Standards in the Red (UMass)
Librerias de espectros estelares (UCM)
Keenan & McNeil (1976) "At Atlas of Spectra of the Cooler Stars" (text): hard to find, scanned in here.
Stellar Evolution & Atmospheres (Models, Tracks, Isochrones, Data)
TYCHO stellar evolution code- ASU AST 522 course
Padova group evolutionary tracks & isochrones (Bressan, Girardi, Marigo, Bertelli et al.), PARAM Bayesian mass/age estimator
Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database (Dotter+ 2008)
Yale-Yonsei Stellar Models (Yi et al. 2003)
Geneva Stellar Evolution Models
Lionel Siess's Tools for Observers
Francesca D'Antona's Stellar Evolution Page
MARCS stellar atmospheres
Lyon atmosphere models
France Allard's model atmospheres and synthetic spectra (simulator)
Pierre Pergeron's white dwarf cooling models
Wichita State Opacities
Stellar Evolution & Atmospheres (Papers)
Seaton et al. (1992) "The Opacity Project - computation of atomic data"
Rogers & Iglesias (1992) "Rosseland mean opacities for variable compositions"
Rogers & Iglesias (1992) "Radiative atomic Rosseland mean opacity tables"
Rogers & Iglesias (1996) "Updated OPAL Opacities"
Alexander & Ferguson (1994) "Low-temperature Rosseland opacities"
Rogers & Nayfonov (2002) "Updated and expanded OPAL EOS Tables"
Seaton & Badnell (2004) "A comparison of Rosseland-mean opacities from OP and OPAL"
Ferguson et al. (2005) "Low-temperature opacities" (500-30,000K)
Mayer & Duschl (2005) "Rosseland and Planck mean opacities for primordial matter"
Bahcall et al. (2005) "New solar opacities, abundances, helioseismology, and neutrino fluxes"
Badnell et al. (2005) "Updated opacities from the Opacity Project"
Seaton (2005) "Opacity Project data on CD for mean opacities and radiative accelerations"
Sharp & Burrows (2007) "Atomic and molecular opacities for brown dwarf and giant planet atmospheres"
Cassisi et al. (2008) "Updated electron-conduction opacities: The impact on low-mass stellar models"
Freedman, Marley, & Lodders (2008) "Line and mean opacities for ultracool dwarfs and extrasolar planets"
Astronomy/Astrophysics Journals & Literature
Wolbach Library (CfA)
List of Journals
ADS
Astro-PH Preprint Server
Astronomical Journal (AJ)
Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
MNRAS
Publ. of the Astron. Soc. of the Pacific (PASP)
Publ. of the Astron. Soc. of Japan (PASJ)
Astronomische Nachrichten (AN)
Astronomical Catalogs/Databases
Vizier
Vizier new catalogs
Vizier most popular catalogs
SIMBAD
NStED
SkyView
PanSTARRS
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS)
Asiago Database on Photometric Systems
Extinction in Different Bandpasses
Schlegel Dust & Reddening Maps
Astronomical Almanac - Astronomical Constants
DASCH - Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard
Keck Observatory Archive (KOA)
US Virtual Observatory
STILTS - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
Digitized Sky Survey Plate Finder (STSci)
Astrometry
USNO Catalog Information and Recommendations
ESA Hipparcos
Astrographic Catalogue (AC 2000.2)
USNO Flagstaff Finder Chart Service and help (USNO-B1.0 now available)
COSMOS Catalog
Guide Star Catalog (GSC) 2.0 Catalog
Lick Northern Proper Motion (NPM) program
USNO CCD Astrometric Catalog (UCAC)
Besancon Galaxy Model
astrometry.net
Spitzer Space Telescope
Spitzer
FEPS
GLIMPSE
Astronomy News
Astronomy Magazine
space.com
Sky & Telescope
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
Astronomy Organizations
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
AAAP
Rochester Academy of Science, Astronomy Section
Books
The Virial Theorem in Stellar Astrophysics by Collins
Software
Python Primer (Rich Sarkis & BCC Wiki)
DS9: DS9 regions formats
ACP Observatory Control Software
PRISM software
IRAF
CCDware: CCDautopilot
Lotus's polynomial regression data fit
Sun
Basic Astronomical Data for the Sun (EEM)
The Sun in Time: Activity & Environment: living review by Manuel Gudel
NOAO Current Solar Data
Solar Data Analysis Center @ Goddard
Solar X-ray data: GOES Solar X-ray Imager
Planets
USNO Geocentric Positions of Major Solar System Objects and Bright Stars
Planetary Rings Node (SETI) - planet + moon ephemerides
LAMBDA - Coordinate Conversions (Goddard)
Equatorial/Ecliptic Coordinates Calculator - Frosty Drew Obs
Ethnoastronomy, Historial Astronomical, Stellar Nomenclature
Bayer (1603) Uranometria
Thayer's notes on "Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning" by Richard Hinckley Allen
Gary Thompson's notes on "Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning" by Richard Hinckley Allen
Gary Thompson's "Studies of Occidental Constellations and Star Names to the Classical Period: An Annotated Bibliography"
Arabic star names by Moh'd Odeh
James Kaler's notes on star names
Polynesian star names
Books by Paul Kunitzsch
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (JAHH)
Bright Star Catalog 2nd Ed. (1940) Appendix 5: Index to Star Names
Historical Celestial Atlases on the WWW
Steven Gibson's list of star names
Chris Dolan's list of star names
Knobel (1895): "On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calnedarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket"
Hoffleit (1979): "Discordances in Star Designations"
Rogers (1998a): "Origins of the Ancient Constellations: I. The Mesopotamian Traditions"
Rogers (1998b): "Origins of the Ancient Constellations: II. The Mediterranean Traditions"
Werner (1912): "Note on Bantu Star-Names"
Best (1922): "The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical"
Becvar (1964) "Atlas of the Heavens II" (Table II: Names of Stars):
cover page,
#1,
#2,
#3,
#4,
#5,
#6
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